Doctor Song Oh Hello fancy seeing you Anna.
Anna Wright smiles at Rose "Oh hey Rose! I was just thinking of grabbing a coffee. God I've been on the ferry half the day already..." She laughs "How are you?"
Gabrielle Rousseau gets on the ferry and climbs to the passenger level with the others. As is her habit, she heads for the cafe and blinks, seeing a familiar fed pony tail. "Anna? Anna Wright?" her voice is cautious but joyous.
Doctor Song "I'm Good Going to Vancouver to pick up Leo at the airport" she smiles and notices another familiar face.
Anna Wright is listening to Rose and smiling but then hears Gabby's voice behind her calling her name and turns with a start "Gabby!" She's happy to see her but also a little awkward so she draws in Rose "This is my friend Rose.....Rose, Gabby, Gabby...Rose...." She adjusts her pack "Where's Leo coming from?" She asks Rose belatedly.
Gabrielle Rousseau sees Rose, but hasn't seen Anna in some time. She watches Anna's reaction with a small half a grin. "We know each other. Hey Rose." she seems amused.
Doctor Song Hello Gabby Good to see you Both, Leo is coming From Cyprus, says the Layover in Dallas was horrid got harassed by the security there. so i thought i'd surprise him at the airport."
Anna Wright blinks and smiles back at Gabby "You look well...healthy....you know. Is life good to you?" She swivels her head to Rose "Well at least it wasn't one of the 7 deadly travel ban countries but yeah...travel through the USA is no picnic right now. Cyprus...that would be a long flight...Whew..."
Gabrielle Rousseau nods. "I wish you luck on that." she looks towards Anna and then down at herself. "Well. Healthy or fat, but I'm good. Life is good." she watches her turn back to Rose, still amused. She takes a step forward. "How are YOU, Anna? Sky wonders about you from time to time."
Doctor Song politely lets Anna and Gabby get caught up while she glances over the menu for a quick snack.
Anna Wright watches Rose walk away like she might try and lunge at her so she can't leave and then looks wide eyed at Gabby before smiling politely "You are NOT fat. He does.....what...does he wonder?" She says with a short chuckle "Tell him I say hi though." She looks at the coffee shop and Rose again, drifting, her life boat ebbing away and blurts out "Let's follow Rose's lead and get coffee.....yes coffee is good...." She makes to line up behind Rose "Your hair is SO blue....you must have to dye it all the time..."
Gabrielle Rousseau watches Rose go off and silently wonders if Anna will pounce her in order to save herself. That idea amuses her. "I guess he wonders what we all wonder. How it may have been if things had worked out with us. At least ONCE." she smiles. "It's great the Fates have given us the opportunity to meet again." she heads for the counter. "Coffee sounds FANTASTIC. Where you headed, Anna. I'd love to catch up!" She glances at the menu.
Doctor Song "Yes and no There is a trick to it i use an old laundry product called Bluing and rinse it with that to keep it blue."
Anna Wright hears Gabby and trips over her own foot with a little choking sound and then tries to play it off casually and clears her throat before a quiet "Uh thank you...but no. But I support you in your....journey with that...both of you....and whoever else might be on that .....path." She pats Rose on the arm now like she might grip it at any moment, like a slightly frightened child "Bluing you say....fascinating....tell me all the steps!"
Gabrielle Rousseau grins. "Both of us. All of us. Really Anna, loosen UP." she places a hand on Anna's arm. Partly because she's like that and partly because Anna is adorable uncomfortable. "It's an interesting color." she peers at the hair. We could never make it naturally. Phoenix would have loved that .. with all his oh so blond hair. You remember Phoenix, don't you, Anna?" she pats the arm. "He's still over on Alexandra. I'm going to make sure to see him while I'm there."
Doctor Song "Actually it is plant based, using Indigo and Woad woad being a controlled plant substance so expensive to get and you have to be careful with it."
Anna Wright peers at the cupcakes in the case, her face flushing a deep crimson "Oh Phoenix lives there now? " She pauses for a moment and then says "Well have a nice visit." She gulps and looks at Rose "We were all part of a sort of commune on Salt Spring years ago...Gabby, Sky, Phoenix, who you don't know. A back to the land community. Gabby are you still building stuff? That was your thing if I recall correctly."
Gabrielle Rousseau looks interested. "Ah, I'll have to look that one up." then she smiles and looks at Anna as if surprised she'd remember. "Yes, Phoenix is still there. He runs a music shop. He still gets to Salt Spring from time to time." she nods, still touching Anna. "I still build. And refurbish and all. Houses. Buildings." she rubs" she smiles. "Are you stopping at Alexandra, Anna?" she sounds hopeful. "I know Phoenix would LOVE to see you again!"
Doctor Song "it's what was in the dye used by Scotsmen and viking beserkers can cause you to do strange things if you abuse it. but lucky you could never buy that much of it." ah so a back to the land green living group?"
Anna Wright smiles awkwardly again "Yeah I am heading to Alexandra as well. My Dad's 65th birthday. I'm meeting him and his....let's call her a friend because I don't know if they're....well whatever...friend.....for dinner. But yeah we could have coffee. I'll have some time before I meet them." She points to a scone and asks the clerk "Are those currents? If they are, I'll have one please...and a coffee?" She looks thankful for the distraction of Scotland and blue hair and draws in Rose "What happens if you use to much? Do you become a Viking or a blue faced Scot?"
Gabrielle Rousseau shakes her head. "Not really. They never left the land on Salt Spring to need to go back to it." she explains. "It's always been and always will be. Beautiful and natural. Summer campy sometimes since .. oh .. over 100 years now, I think." she claps her hands at Anna's news. "We'll have to get something together. Coffee. Oh your Dad has a GIRLFRIEND! That's far out!! More power to us. I want to still be active even as a centurion!" she looks at the clerk. "Just coffee for me, please." she smiles at him.
Doctor Song Laughs " You remember the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson? Well You get rather shitfaced put on a kilt and go around mooning peeps and fighting like a wild bear.
Anna Wright shudders slightly at Gabby's joy over her father's potential virility and then laughs at Rose, because the whole conversation is indeed far out all around "Yes Salt Spring is it's own deal....like Scotland but less blue..and sheep." She takes her coffee and scone and thanks the clerk and then sighs "I don't know if I'd call this woman a girlfriend. Sort of a when the phase is right, maybe it's cycled to the moon. Sunflower Meadow. You'd like her, both of you really, got her own back to the land hobby farm on Alexandra with goats and no plumbing....she's weird about my Dad though so we don't always see eye to eye. He has to bail her out of a few too many jams...it's not really balanced. But you know what...none of my business really. If he's happy doing it." She steps back to make room for others ordering.
Gabrielle Rousseau arches a brow and nods slowly, but then sighs deeply. "All of life is when the phase is right, Anna." she philosophizes. "We'll talk about it more. Cause we HAVE to catch up." she takes her coffee and moves beside Anna .. who is clearly not going to get away from this reunion, ESPECIALLY as they're going to the same place.
Doctor Song: " I don't really buy into the phases of the moon stuff peeps can be good or bad any time , I guess I've seen too much of it in my work. " she sighs lightly maybe someday when i am not so hurried we can sit down a go over some herbal stuff together maybe make us some Melissa Tea ."
Anna Wright smiles at Rose "I was kind of kidding about the ebb and flow of my father and women, but that sounds interesting." She smiles at Gabby, getting a little more comfortable. She does like Gabby, they just have a bit of an awkward history. "What's Melissa tea?" She's moving to pay now and is scanning the table to see where the three of them can chill for a bit while the ferry chugs on to Alexandra.
Gabrielle Rousseau smiles, nods and pays. "People can be bad anytime but the moon still rules us all. We are part of the earth, after all. Unless you're of the school we're abandoned children of aliens." she laughs softly.
Doctor Song giggles "you never know about us Reindeer types " she looks wildly " I did leave my antennae in the car," she grins like an IMP.
Anna Wright picks up her order and smiles back at the other women "Well all this human food and coffee placates me just fine. I'll grab us a table?" She's happy to pass the time with delightfully strange company because, after all, the day will only get stranger.
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